Iceland elects Europe’s first woman women majority Parliament

• Integrity Education, Delhi
• 27, Sep 2021

• Iceland became the first country in Europe to have more women than men in Parliament.
• Iceland does not have legal quotas on female representation in Parliament
• Iceland was the first country to elect a woman as President in 1980.
• Iceland has topped the World Economic Forum’s ranking of most egalitarian countries for the past 12 years.
• After Iceland, Sweden has most Women in their Parliament (47%) in Europe.

Iceland Parliament

• Althing, Icelandic Alþingi also spelled Althingi, is unicameral legislature of Iceland.
• Founded at Thingvellir in southwestern Iceland c. 930, the Althing is one of the oldest national parliaments in the world.

More Women participation in Other Countries
According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, there are five other countries which have Parliaments where women hold at least half the seats: Rwanda (61%), Cuba (53%), Nicaragua (51%) and Mexico and the United Arab Emirates (50%).